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The week that was (Dazzling Derivatives; issue of 6th September 2013)
Dear all, this edition of the ‘Dazzle’ comes on a Friday as I will be off for the next two week – keep an eye open for what’s happening in the derivatives markets. The next edition is due at the end of...
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REGIS-TR & Abide Financial Partner to Deliver MiFID and EMIR Reporting
Customers of Abide and REGIS can now achieve compliance with both EMIR and MiFID as the two firms have announced a link-up. Customers of REGIS can route reporting traffic via Abide to comply with...
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Patrick Pearson speaks on ETD Delay
Overheard at a conference, a comment by Patrick Pearson: “there will be no delay to ETD reporting”. Can anyone else confirm this? Bill Other Posts Relating to Exchange-Traded Derivatives and Trade...
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The week that was (Dazzling Derivatives; issue of 30th September 2013)
Dear all, Back after a refreshing holiday – please receive the latest news digest on the dazzling world of derivatives. From this week onwards I will add “pagination” to the Dazzle – this means that...
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EMIR Self-Reporting for Non-Financials. Is this really an option?
The funny thing about this regulation is that we all strive to comply with it while its timelines and standards are still evolving. This really feels as if we’re shooting at a moving target yet this is...
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RegTechFS » Interim issues: Pre-LEIs complicating regulatory implementation
In Europe firms have until Feb 12th (predicted) to begin reporting trades to a TR of their choice, which means any firm involved must have an LEI or equivalent to label their trades. RegTechFS have a...
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LEIs – Status update
ESMA published yesterday an update of its Question and Answers (Q&A) on EMIR where amongst others it clarifies the use of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI) for the purpose of trade reporting to trade...
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Regulation Reflections: US Reporting – Is systemic risk being de-prioritized?
It is not clear whether CFTC yet has meaningful systemic risk information from the end of day / historic SDR reporting which has been live for several months. The real-time trade data we can see in...
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Welcome to reporting hell…
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has approved today the registrations of the first four trade repositories (TRs) under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR). This...
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UPDATED: New EMIR FAQs published
Another – rather smallish update – has found its way into the EMIR Q&As, which ESMA published today. Five parts have been updated as follows: Calculation of the clearing threshold (OTC Question 3)...
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Weekly Roundup | Post-Trade Processing | 11 November 2013
EMIR: Trade Reporting & Regulatory Announcement Thursday (RAT) Day Welcome To Reporting Hell… The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has approved today the registrations of the first...
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A quartet becomes a sextet
While I was actually checking out how to tie a bowtie I was alerted of the fact that ESMA has now also registered ICE Trade Vault Europe Ltd (ICE TVEL), based in the United Kingdom; and CME Trade...
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Weekly Roundup | Trading & Post-Trade Processing | 3 December 2013
Trading Europe’s OTF to Follow the US’s SEF? Lessons in Electronic Swaps Trading It is still probably too early to derive meaningful conclusions from the impact of Swap Execution Facilities (SEF) on...
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OTC equivalency: A regulatory tug-of-war?
On 1 September, ESMA issued its advice to the Commission on declaring countries outside the EU to be equivalent under EMIR. The good news is that at long last we should have some certainty on what...
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A Guide to the EMIR Trade Reporting Obligations – Part 1
On November 7th ESMA authorized four Trade Repositories to offer their services to Europe’s entities and ESMA’s updated version of EMIR implementation timeline showed the 12th of February as the start...
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A Guide to the EMIR Trade Reporting Obligations – Part 2
Time has come to move on to EMIR Trade Reporting – Part 2 (EMIR Trade Reporting Part 1 is here). Before I get into detail, there are some valid points that I received from Carsten Kunkel, Tom Riesack...
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